Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] the long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In an amiable parody of an interview he once heard being given by Sir Adrian Boult , Gould spelt out the attitude to recording of that older generation : roughly , ‘ I do n't mind doing the occasional recording , old boy — not everyone gets to concerts — and we 'll do our best , but I do n't want any ‘ patching ’ , we must keep the long line intact ’ .
2 ‘ So we 'll keep the long stuff down over the season and see what flowers come up . ’
3 you take the high road and I 'll take the long road and I 'll be in Scotland
4 Right , we 'll go along we 'll go the long way .
5 As we sat in the garden behind his surf shop and talked I could feel the long grass beneath my feet with a sensual awareness I 'd never experienced before .
6 Through the glass I could see the long lines of blue moving away down the street and I could still hear the shouts of the corporal .
7 In the light from the streetlamp Kate could see the long dark lashes against her daughter 's cheek bones .
8 From where he stood , he could see the long procession outside the walls , motionless now , and the wagons unshackled behind it .
9 He could see the long walkway below him , the small iron gates at each end with steps leading down to both sides of the house .
10 For sports the children would run around a local playing field , which was just down the road , they walked there under supervision of , or the children would do the long jump in the sand pit .
11 One year unemployment action plus one year adult training would achieve the long term objective for those unemployed , with special needs .
12 This would continue until about 11 pm , when they would begin the long drive home .
13 Time and time again we would begin the long task of explaining who John was and what on earth we were doing .
14 However , there is an equally wide body of opinion , expressed mainly by manufacturing industries , which oppose such a move because it believes that it would disrupt the long period of uninterrupted production between the August holiday and the Christmas break .
15 She would take the long route back over the desolate flats .
16 At a stroke , this would neutralize the long experience of rural discontent between tenants and landlords , it would remove the over-bearing power of landlords in village communities and in the process eliminate one source of support for the ultra-nationalist movement .
17 1 shall notice the long legs hugging the line of the trunk .
18 If the wind drops below 50mph , they will begin the long haul to the 29,000ft summit .
19 The project will examine the long term retention of knowledge that was originally acquired from formal education and which has since lain dormant .
20 Regardless of the shape you 're in at the finish , only a glutton for punishment will relish the long haul back down the road to the car .
21 Dawes of Nelson can make the long trip from Surrey worthwhile by plundering the Finishing Post Sprint Handicap at Hamilton .
22 It is confident that it can take the long distance frugality title to add to its claim of being Britain 's fastest small diesel with a top speed of 96.3 mph .
23 Historically , over almost any run of three or four years or more , equities have outperformed bonds and , as pension funds are investing for members ' retirements , they can take the long view .
24 Most of all , if opposition batsman would like to get out ( the dollier the catch the better ) they can start the long walk to the pavilion in the knowledge that it was in a good cause , and not just that of Barney cricket .
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